by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
One of the great things about empire is it doesn’t attempt to hide its monstrosity. The latest “Military Parade” stunt, normally reserved in Western cultural imaginations for Stalinist USSR, Maoist China, and North Korea, has now come home to roost....
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
I just came upon a great little app/website Are Men Talking Too Much? that is a simple and humorous counter that allows tracking the gender of the person speaking in a meeting. I like this because I am prone to talk too much, and over the years, through great effort,...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Washington Post’s alarming story about teenagers intentionally imbibing Tide detergent “pods” (or “pacs”) due to dares by other teenagers, is not a story about teenagers being dumb, but really one about faulty design. The increasing...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Dec 20, 2017 | death, Discursive Gap, folly, Industrial Epidemics, normalization, Oil Barons, pollution, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Uncategorized
I recently published an article in Berkeley’s newspaper, Berkeleyside, about the incessant overhead air traffic, and how this likely is causing significant public health effects. Here’s the evidence base: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25332277...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Nov 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
I am very pleased to announce that the Eighteenth Annual Biosemiotics Gathering will take place at the University of California Berkeley’s elegant International House grand auditorium June 17-20, 2018. On behalf of the Organizing Committee, Terry Deacon and...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Oct 4, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Publications, Uncategorized
The 2016 Oxford University Press book The Greening of Everyday Life: Challenging Practices, Imagining Possibilities I contributed a chapter to on “Bicycling and the Politics of Recognition,” has received a kind review from environmental philosopher Robert...
